Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one’s grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one’s wit.
What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?
My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024
ICanHearYouHavingSex was in a friend’s building
TooFlyforAWIFI is mine
My home wifi is “Terok Nor”, and my mobile hotspot is “runabout”.
What do that mean?
It’s a Deep Space Nine reference
my two favorites are: DropItLikeItsHotSpot YouCantTakeWiFiFromMe
IPandPoop
My SSID has always been “InfectedWithVirus”.
Seen crazy brilliant shit at DefCon trying to remember…,
- Rick Astley lyrics on like 6 different APs : Never_gonna_giveyouup / neverGonnaRunAround / etc
- Remote-Detonator
- FBIvan
- FreeOktaTokens
My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”
“Happy WiFi Happy Life”
Be better if it was “LiFi”
Tell My WIFIm At Work
Tellmywifisaidhello
Tellmywifihadababyitsaboy
“Who was it, honey?” “It was Bob. They had a baby. It’s a boy.”
Man, commercials just used to live in your head like that. This was for 1-800 collect or one of the many, many copycats, right?
It was a Geico ad which took advantage of it being the era with all those competing collect-call services everyone knew about.
I’m pretty sure the commercial was before my time. I managed to catch the very tail-end of collect calls and payphones, though. I definitely used this trick all the time to get my parents to come out and collect (heh) me from school or the mall as a broke tween. It annoyed the shit out of them haha
One of my neighbors is The_Booty_Warrior. My hypothesis is that’s the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.
My hypothesis is that’s the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.
If you can wander around with kismet and a GPS sensor on a laptop, you can map the location of a WAP.
Just make sure to bring a mop and a bucket for that WAP
For the longest time I had “FBI Van” and “NSA Van” for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands respectively. 0 cool stories with that scheme, until I changed the 5ghz one to “Ganon’s Tower” and a neighbor eventually joined me and named his wifi “Hyrule Castle”. We kept that for a few years until the neighbor moved, I believe
My son uses KittyPorn.
Meow 🙀
Buddy had one of those barely FCC compliant wifi “debugger” boards, so for a while we actually had an entire armada of FBI surveillance vehicles, vans, and a helicopter on every 2.4ghz channel lol.
I dont know if fake SSID advertisements really impede actual stations, but it was pretty funny seeing 15 SSIDs coming from a single, almost thumbstick size board.
Maybe you could get a wifi channel to yourself by adding a bunch of fake AP’s on the same channel, and having your neighbouring routers automatically switch to a “less crowded” channel.
They might use more heuristics than just the number of ssid’s advertised on a channel though.
It’s literally just a packet with the ssid and related info in it, shouted into the void. It becomes an issue if you shout so much that other people’s traffic is effectively jammed, otherwise, have fun.
WhyFigh
Reboot tot connect
